Well after reading it over about three times, I still wasn't as excited for the origin of Buddy Baker as Animal Man. It was as strong of an origin story as I would of liked. The origin and how its transformation came to be was a bit speed up and could of been given more detail. We also are able to see the reason for why Buddy decided to forget more about his celebrity status and become more family oriented (any frequent reader of Animal Man knows what this is). Anyway the art was on par with previous Animal Man comics and even though the story was a bit bland at the times. I still enjoyed to see his transformation and the decision that was made to make him the avatar.